Bulletin, September 2013
State of migration in 2012; discrimination against women in bateyes in access to health care; interethnic relations on the Dominican-Haitian border; the Dominican@s por Derecho movement; a manual for rights defenders facing migration control. This bulletin covers July, August, and September 2013.
This bulletin covers July, August, and September, reporting on developments from the third quarter of 2013 related to OBMICA's work and the migration context in which we operate.
- Launch of the second annual report on the state of migration concerning the Dominican Republic, by associate researcher Natalia Riveros.
- Outreach activity to share research on access to health care for women living in bateyes, by associate researcher Cristian Martinez.
- Preliminary conclusions from a study analyzing the effects of a project aimed at improving interethnic relations on the Dominican-Haitian border, by associate researcher Jorgen Yri.
- OBMICA joins the Dominican@s por Derecho movement against the potential stripping of Dominican nationality from thousands of people born in the Dominican Republic to Haitian-descended families.
- New resource available: "Training Manual on the Rights of Migrants in the Face of Migration Control" (MENAMIRD/OBMICA).